Publication

This report discusses supranational governance and public authority in five areas: financial systems, security/small arms, migration, extractive industries and obnoxious goods. For each issue area, the report outlines existing international rule and enforcement systems or regimes; the interests steering or blocking them; and the resulting deficits in democratic supervision, coherence and compliance. It argues that public control in all five areas is weak, although a few initiatives in supranational governance are showing promise.